News of memory day

'Nunca más’ – Massive march in Argentina, 49 years after coup

24-03-2025 20:11 Tens of thousands take to streets to remember dictatorship’s crimes and challenge President Javier Milei’s government.

24 de MARZO

Milei government casts doubt over dictatorship crimes

24-03-2024 18:49 Milei administration echoes vice-president's line, demanding justice for "the victims of terrorism" during military dictatorship era and questioning 30,000 disappeared estimate from human rights groups.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Argentines send message with march in memory of dictatorship

24-03-2024 17:03 Huge crowds head to Plaza de Mayo to mark the 48th anniversary of the coup d'état that brought Argentina’s brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship to power, resulting in the disappearance, exile and execution of tens of thousands of people in secret death camps across the country.

National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice

Milei set to stoke controversy with 'complete memory' March 24 video

23-03-2024 12:08 The video has been left in charge of libertarian documentarist Santiago Oria and former guerrilla fighter Luis Labraña, former head of the SIDE intelligence service, Juan Bautista “Tata” Yofre, and relatives of the former captain Humberto Viola were all involved.

GUEST COLUMN

Purim and the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice

22-03-2024 00:01 Argentina’s National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice is to be commemorated on the same day that we observe and celebrate Purim in the Hebrew calendar.

by Batia D. de Nemirovsky & Ariel Gelblung *

HUMAN RIGHTS

CELS rights group proposes 'Pact of March' to protect democracy

20-03-2024 16:31 Influential rights NGO criticises “denialism” warns against incorporation of military officers into government and calls for cross-party ‘Pacto de Marzo’ to guarantee rights and democracy.

by Ariel Maciel